The best legacy we leave is not for our children but in our children.
To inform, and, therefore to reconnoitre , this is the first and constant duty of the advanced guard.
A beaten general is disgraced forever.
Far from being a sum of distinct and partial results, victory is the consequence of efforts, some of which are victorious while others appear to be fruitless, which nevertheless all aim at a common goal, all drive at a common result: namely, at a decision, a conclusion which alone can provide victory.
This absence of similarity among military questions naturally brings out the inability of memory to solve them; also the sterility of invariable forms, such as figures, geometrical drawings ( épures ), plans ( schémas ), etc. One only right solution imposes itself:;: namely, the application, varying according to circumstances, of fixed principles.
All the same, the fundamental truths which govern that art are still unchangeable; just as the principles of mechanics must always govern architecture, whether the building be made of wood, stone, iron or concrete; just as the principles of harmony govern music of whatever kind. It is still necessary, then, to establish the principles of war.
No study is possible on the battlefield.
You lose nothing when fighting for a cause. . . In my mind the losers are those who don't have a cause they care about.
We are not panicking because we know that Islamic State cannot conquer the capital.
There is something to the fact that when you're on stage or when you're playing someone else, you're able to transmute all the things inside you that maybe get a bit blocked by the wall of shyness, or the wall of anxiety, or [by] overthinking. They sort of fall away in that moment and channeled into something else.
Movie queens diffuse into Cinema haze, while libertines read pornozines in street cafes.